Exam question 4 · Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his…

What did Cassandra promise in return for prophecy, and how did Apollo punish her treachery?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cassandra, Apollo · What happens: promise, punish · To what, where: return, treachery

This is exam question 4 of lesson 509 «Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his love affairs go wrong» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 promise	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promise	aux
3	Cassandra	Cassandra	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promise	nsubj
4	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 return	case
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promise	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 prophecy	case
8	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 punish	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 punish	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 punish	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 punish	aux
13	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 punish	nsubj
14	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promise	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 treachery	nmod:poss
16	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 punish	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	Cassandra			return for prophecy			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	punish	past · do-support	Apollo	Apollo's treachery					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treachery=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

She promised marriage; he made her prophecies doubted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 prophecies	nmod:poss
8	prophecies	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 doubted	nsubj
9	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	She	marriage	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme
2	make	past	he		tree rules
3	doubt	past	her prophecies		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She promised marriage; he made her warnings unbelieved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obj
9	unbelieved	unbeliev	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 warnings	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	She	marriage		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme
2	make	past	he	warnings	her = she	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary warning=Product
3	unbeliev	participle		warnings not said here		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She promised marriage to Apollo; he made her warnings unbelieved by all the people of Troy

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Apollo	case
5	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj
11	unbelieved	unbeliev	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 warnings	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 people	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 people	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 unbelieved	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Troy	case
17	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	She	marriage	Apollo		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme to apollo=Goal
2	make	past	Apollo	warnings	her = she		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary warning=Product
3	unbeliev	participle		warnings not said here		by all people of Troy	tree rules

Option 4

She promised to wed him; he made her warnings ignored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wed	mark
4	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wed	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj
11	ignored	ignore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	She		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wed not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	him = he	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	make	past	he	her = she	tree rules
4	ignore	participle	her = she not said here		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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